Bill McCarthy wrote:

> On Sun 28-Jan-07 9:36pm -0600, you wrote:
> 
> >   I noticed that for getting the runtime files, Bill McCarthy uses
> >   ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/dos/ whereas Tony uses everything
> >   inside ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/ except the dos subdirectory.
> >
> >   So I surmise that the stuff under runtime/dos/ is essentially the
> >   same as everything in runtime/ excluding dos/ -- with the
> >   difference having to do with the use of CRLF and CR.  Am I
> >   correct?
> 
> Yes, the dos/ directory has line endings of CR/LF, the other
> has LF.  Also, the dos/ directory as only 14 subdirectories,
> but the one above has 16.  The difference is the dos/
> directory and the spell/ directory - I don't know why, but
> the spell directory is missing for dos/.

Because the files in the spell directory are exactly the same for Unix
and DOS.  They are quite big too, thus saving the space is worth the
effort.

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